DoJ Charges 19 Defendants in Alleged $4M Philadelphia Medicare and Medicaid Fraud

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McDONALD: “This team of public servants is committed to looking further digging deeper, working night and day to unmask the fraudsters stealing the wealth of America and bring them to justice. And this commitment is reaping dividends right here and right now in Pennsylvania. Today, we are announcing criminal charges against 19 defendants for fraudulent home healthcare schemes that targeted Pennsylvania’s Medicaid fraud program and resulted in over $4 million of fraud. 18 of these defendants were charged in the last 12 days as part of a strategically coordinated law enforcement operation between the fraud division, the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office. The cases today build on the work that we recently announced in Minnesota, where we charged 15 defendants for systematically looting seven state-managed Medicaid programs out of more than $90 million, treating those programs like a piggy bank until one of them had to be shut down entirely because there was nothing left, the shelves were empty.”